The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 49
The Queen, prudent as she was, could not help reproaching her several times, which had like to have made this poor Princess die for grief.
Who acts: queen, several times, this · What happens: be, not help, reproach, have, make, die
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, several times, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 help | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prudent | punct |
| 4 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Queen | amod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prudent | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 help | advmod |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | reproaching | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 help | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 times | nmod:poss |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reproaching | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 times | acl:relcl |
| 19 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 made | aux |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 had | xcomp |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 die | nsubj |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 die | amod |
| 25 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 die | compound |
| 26 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 grief | case |
| 28 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 die | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not help | could | the Queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reproach not said to happen | gerund | the Queen not said here | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | queen's several times | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive · perfect | queen's several times not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | die | this | for grief | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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